Latest Energy News

Laing O’Rourke has joined the Rolls-Royce led British consortium looking to win government funding to develop its small modular reactor (SMR) programme.

Morgan Sindall has been awarded a £60M, two year extension to an existing framework with Western Power Distribution.

The Amazon basin could suffer irreparable damage if a significant number of dams are built as planned, causing environmental scientists to push for alternative renewables.

Engineering and renewable energy experts have said that despite US withdrawal from the Paris climate agreement being a “disaster”, Europe and China should seize the opportunity to lead green innovation.

Design and infrastructure growth barriers in the floating offshore wind sector are to be tackled through three major Carbon Trust studies.

A controversial fracking scheme has become a key campaigning issue in a Yorkshire borough ahead of next week’s election.

Completion of a £145M Derby energy-from-waste scheme (EfW) has been delayed for up to a year, it has emerged.

Work on a £1.1bn power transmission project in Scotland has taken a step forward after a purpose built, cable-laying vessel departed from Aberdeen harbour.

National Grid is stopping work on its grid connection to the proposed Moorside nuclear power station following the announcement of a strategic review of the plant’s future.

Black & Veatch is to start an investigation into the feasibility of large scale floating solar farms at 17 of Hong Kong’s impounded reservoirs.